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Democrats Going For Broke

By Joel Skousen

Editor - World Affairs Brief 

3-6-10

 

Begin Excerpt   The political mood of the country is angry and more polarized than ever. Left and Right are now worlds apart and headed for a major clash at the polls for the mid-term elections in November. Republicans are set to make big gains, but if the Republican leaders have their way, following in the pattern of the failed Contract With America of 1994, they will once again sabotage the potential victory and lead conservatives away from real change. For now, the Democrats are headed for a number of losses at the polls and some are planning to resign rather than face the inevitable defeat. Obama and Democratic leaders have decided to go for broke--get all the bad legislation passed while they have the power and then let Team B take over. As for the Powers That Be (PTB) who control both parties at the top levels, they are already preparing to make sure the growing conservative backlash is derailed by promoting compromised Republican leaders to make sure the bad laws passed by the Democrats don't get overturned. This week's Texas GOP primary was the first step in that direction.   Democratic politics are being driven by blatant appeals to health and welfare benefits couched in the populist rhetoric of false rights. It's pure pandering to their own growing constituency, but America still hasn't reached the point (yet) where the benefit-corrupted minority becomes an absolute majority. When that happens, Democracy will take on the full mantle of official plunder via majoritarian powers. The PTB continue to move towards that day of irreversible power using stealth intrusions that slowly eat away at the public will to resist.   For now the standard operating procedure is to blame every government regulatory and control failure on events beyond their control (a lie, but effective in diverting blame) coupled with the trumped up need for MORE intervention, not less. That is what they have done with the health care crisis.   Except for creating wars, I can't think of a more perfect vehicle for Hegelian conflict creation and deception than our current partly-free, controlled health care system. The perfect ploy for continual intervention is an issue that has no solution. Health Care can never be fixed as long as the AMA has a lock hold on who gets to practice medicine and how, and as long as establishment medical protocols are controlled by drug companies.   Americans themselves share much of the blame for evading their responsibility to eat properly--in large part due to slick marketing by industry about the wonders of cheap modern food processing, avoiding the negative truth about how nutritionally hollow that food is. Then too, it is hard for most people to avoid the lure of low prices in favor of higher quality.   The bottom line, is that the more the current system fails to either heal people or reduce costs, the more justification there will be for government intervention. That, in a nutshell, is why the current system isn't working. No one inside the system wants it to be cheaper. The proposed reforms will make it all much worse by increasing control, limiting choice and undermining most of the free market attempts to penalize people for decades of bodily abuse. The reforms also intend to spread the costs to those of us who are making huge strides to stay healthy and out of the hospital insurance system.   For all of the above reasons, the Democrats have decided they must pass something --anything to get their foot in the door. As long as they get the basics of a mandatory system, no matter how watered down, no one will ever be able to escape the system in the future. Both Democrats and Republicans can then tinker with it at will.   Republicans got suckered into participating in Obama's televised health summit, and now Obama is leveraging off of that claiming to include several of the Republican proposals in the new bill. No one believes this new attempt is acceptable to Republicans, and it will be a hard sell to many Democrats who don't want to be turned out of office in November. Let me comment on view of ABC News:   "Political strategists doubt whether there is enough support among 'Democrats to pass President Obama's health care legislation, even though 'House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., expressed confidence Sunday she 'would eventually have enough House votes to do so [She's right. The Dems won't take no for an answer, and dozens of Congressmen have enough skeletons in the closet to be subject to political arm twisting].   "Polls show that even though a majority of Americans dislike the Democrats' bill, they do want health care overhaul. Republicans [would] like this bill to pass, because they know how unpopular it is, [which is really stupid, failing to understand how difficult it will be to remove once passed. Too many people can be conned into thinking that something is good because "at least we are started down the road to reform." They fail to realize it's a road of no return and the illusory promises of positive change will never happen]."   As John Fund points out, however, "A new Gallup Poll finds that, by 52% to 39%, those surveyed oppose attempts by Democrats to circumvent a filibuster by passing health care by a simple majority vote. A separate poll by CNN found that only 25% of voters want Congress to pass a bill similar to the ones already voted on by the House and Senate. A full 48% want Congress to start over, and 25% want lawmakers to stop working on health care altogether."   The will of the people be damned: "To pass the health care bill, the House and Senate bills would need to be meshed together into one piece of legislation that can pass both chambers. But since there are significant differences between the House bill and Senate bills, Democrats are discussing [planning on] first passing the Senate bill in the House, then passing a separate bill with House Democrats' revisions through reconciliation, a legislative process that would require only 51 votes in the Senate [to avoid a Republican filibuster]. Proponents of the bill argue that Democrats need to step up and push the bill through because if it doesn't pass, it will only hurt them." It will hurt them either way, but the leaders don't care. Getting something passed is all that matters, and sadly, I think that is going to happen.   INSIGHTS FROM THE TEXAS GOP PRIMARY   The Texas Republican primary is the first indicator of how well we can expect constitutional conservative rebels to fare against establishment Republican candidates who feign being champions of states rights and the constitution but who are, in reality, globalists. The unofficial leader of the rebel conservative Republicans is Congressman Ron Paul --more than ever a thorn in the side of the FED and big government Republicans. The establishment always tries to defeat Ron Paul every two years by inducing various mainstream conservatives to run against Paul, always portraying Dr. "No," as he is called, as a radical. It didn't work. As UnitedLiberty.org points out, Ron Paul won by a landslide:   "Despite all of the news coverage about the 'tea party candidates' running against him, It didn't take long on Tuesday night to see that Rep. Ron Paul would easily win the Republican Party nomination in the 14th Congressional District by winning over 80% of the vote in the four way race. Paul, who has served in the House since 1997 (not including earlier terms from 1979 to 1985), was being accused of not spending enough time in the district since his bid for president in 2007 to 2008. Republican primary voters in TX-14 overwhelmingly disagreed.   "Every two years it seems there is a lot of attention paid to Paul's primary opponents, more than is reasonably necessary outside the district or state. They never succeed, despite the wishes of pro-war bloggers and commentators."   But, the establishment did succeed in helping Texas Governor Rick Perry ward off a challenge from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson and, more importantly, by libertarian-constitutionalist Debra Medina. Perry won just enough to avoid a runoff with Hutchinson, by gaining a slim majority of 52% to Hutchinson's 32%. A runoff between those two would have yielded virtually no change in ideology. Both have globalist allegiances. It is rare that a sitting Senator with high ratings in the polls offers to give up senatorial prestige to seek the governor's chair. I suspect that Hutchinson did this at the bidding of the PTB in order to make sure Texans didn't have a clear choice between Perry and a true conservative--Debra Medina.   Medina, who garnered 18%, had much higher poll ratings and was climbing rapidly until Glenn Beck tried to sabotage her campaign by trying to make an issue of her openness to the 9/11 truth movement (those who challenge the official government story that Muslim terrorists only were responsible for the physics-defying collapse of WTC buildings 1, 2, and especially 7. Even though Medina was careful not to fully commit to it nor alienate the truth movement, the damage was done and Medina was dogged by people accusing her of believing in conspiracy. Horrors! Nevertheless, Medina is still a force to be reckoned with in Texas politics. She's young enough to run again and again. If Perry goes back to his mainstream ways of betraying conservatives, Texan may well look to Medina to replace him next time around.   Perry made outlandish claims of being a state's rights conservative, even going so far as to talk about Texas secession, always popular with the Texans of an independence nature. But his verbiage was a fraud. As Kurt Nimmo rehearses for the readers of PrisonPlanet.com, Perry's real roots are with the globalists--as are Hutchinsons.   "Reuters describes Perry as a conservative with strong anti-Washington rhetoric in a report this morning on his primary win for the Texas governorship. We're taking our country back -- one vote at a time, one election at a time, he said. Perry will face former Houston Mayor Bill White in the November general election. White beat Houston [Muslim] businessman Farouk Shami in the Democratic primary [Shami received only 20%].   "Rick Perry has masqueraded as a proponent of states' rights while pushing through the NAFTA superhighway and the globalist agenda. The Texas leg of the NAFTA superhighway, also known as the Trans-Texas Corridor, will be financed by Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, a foreign investment consortium based in Spain. In 2007, it was reported that Perry received substantial campaign contributions from Cintra and Zachry Construction Company, the San Antonio-based construction firm selected by TxDOT to build out the TTC.   "In February, 2007, Perry bypassed the Texas legislature and issued an order making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get Gardasil vaccinations. Despite the fact that Gardasil is dangerous, government agencies have been subsidizing its sales, recommending its use, and even talking about requiring it. Perry attended the 2007 Bilderberg meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. Kay Bailey Hutchinson is also a member of the Bilderberg Group. She voted for the so-called Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which authorized the creation of the Troubled Assets Relief Program and facilitated the bankster bailout."   Overall, as the Houston Chronicle pointed out (with glee) "Medina also failed to buoy up other Tea Party candidates across the state. Anti-establishment voters simply didn't materialize at the polls on Tuesday, and most Republican incumbents cruised to victory over their Tea Party challengers.   "There were some local Tea Party successes. Roy Morales, who finished fourth in the Houston mayor's race last fall and whose Tea Party support fueled something of a surge toward the end of that campaign, won the GOP nomination for the 29th Congressional District this time. Don Sumners, who knocked off incumbent Harris County tax assessor-collector Leo Vasquez... Sumners said he believes his anti-tax message, an integral part of the Tea Party movement, resonated more strongly with voters than Vasquez's pledge for businesslike efficiency. But the only clear Tea Party winner outside of Houston was David Simpson, who vanquished state Rep. Tommy Merritt, R-Longview. Simpson credited his victory to shoe leather, prayer and the power of the people. Merritt had held the seat since 1997."   In another important tea party race, Rand Paul, son of Congressman Ron Paul has a strong lead over all his establishment Republican competition for the May 18 GOP Senate Primary in Kentucky. In polls, the younger Paul is also leading against every potential Democratic challenger. In general, the tea party movement will defeat a few establishment Republicans, but not enough to stop establishment control of the Republican party agenda after November.   End Excerpt     World Affairs Brief - Commentary And Insights On A Troubled World   Copyright Joel Skousen. 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